November 14, 2017

I Can't Take it No Moore!

I'm getting sick of hearing about Judge Roy Moore and his messed up situation. But that won't stop me from posting a few insights on the matter.

This is a multi-dimensional scandal, with both sides having some convincing arguments. Often, the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but we may never get to the bottom of this since the alleged offenses took place four decades ago.

The Washington Post is a partisan, left-wing rag that has bent over backwards to take down Republicans since the days of Watergate, if not earlier. And, by frequently relying on anonymous sources, the Post is often wrong. To the newspaper's pompous, self-righteous slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," I mockingly reply, "Accuracy dies in Anonymity." In this case, the accusers are not anonymous, but that doesn't alter the paper's ideological leanings.

So Judge Moore's camp has a point when they say the allegations that he behaved inappropriately with teenage girls nearly 40 years ago -- possibly assaulting at least one of them -- are simply a left-wing smear campaign unleashed just a few weeks before the election, when it's too late to print new ballots. Too, there have been many other instances where a rush to judgment prematurely "convicted" people who ended up being innocent -- the Duke lacrosse players serving as a prime example.

Yet, a couple things make me realize there might be something to these allegations. One is that the judge did himself no favors in his recent interview with Sean Hannity. His answers did not sound convincing at all. Matter of fact, Moore didn't come across as adroit or articulate. However, he's got to have some brains to have made it through law school and be chosen to serve as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. But perhaps he has little common sense, and his personality may contain shades of Elmer Gantry.

Second,why would a woman who says she's a Republican and voted for Trump level her allegations against Moore in public? I don't think she stands to gain any money in a lawsuit settlement or book deal, but I could be wrong. It's fair to suggest that some of the other accusers are motivated by partisan interests -- hoping to turn former Senator Jeff Sessions' seat into one held by a Democrat. But even if that's so, they must realize their lives could be turned upside down now that they are in the public eye. Can threatening phone calls and emails be far behind? Would it be worth it to pay that kind of price simply to help your candidate get elected?

And finally, if only the usual idiots like John McCain, Lyndsey Graham and Jeff Flake were demanding Moore drop out of the race, I would regard the whole thing as a fraud. But even staunch conservatives like Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, plus Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are demanding Moore be gone. Maybe they know that in this era of increasing public awareness of sexual harassment, Moore is so badly tainted that he will have no effectiveness in the Senate. Some senators are threatening not to seat him if he's elected.

Alabama voters are faced with a choice of Moore or Democrat Doug Jones, a liberal who's an avid abortion supporter (even partial birth abortion -- aka infanticide). It's hard to believe they would elect him, but then, if minority turnout is high, it's possible. In the past 24 hours or so, there's been talk of Sessions resigning as Attorney General and agreeing to be a write-in candidate for the Senate seat, but that sounds a bit far-fetched.

The treatment Moore is getting, and the benefit of the doubt extended to his accusers, is a far cry from what happened when Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy routinely abused women. Of course, Kennedy famously left Mary Jo Kopechne to die underwater at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, and was notorious for behaving like a boor around women with his drinking buddy, former Senator Christopher Dodd of Connectituct.

And regarding, Clinton, the women who came forward with their allegations were shamefully demonized and ridiculed. The scumbags in Clinton's war room, including reprobate Hillary and swamp creature James Carville, worked overtime carrying out their infamous "nuts & sluts" defense to crush what they laughingly dubbed as "bimbo eruptions." (This kind of misogyny, alas, was too often overlooked by the millions of women who voted for Clinton and later supported his wife.)

Maybe there's a bright side to the Moore allegations: Perhaps the left-wing press and Democrats will finally believe Juanita Broaddrick when she claims Clinton raped her, as well as Kathleen WIlley, who contended Clinton molested her when she came to him for consolation shortly after her husband died. In fact, recently a writer for the reliabily liberal magazine The Atantic, Caitlin Flanagan, wrote "Let us not forget the sex crimes of which the younger, stronger Bill Clinton was very credibly accused in the 1990s..." He went on to suggest that Broaddrick may well have been telling the truth.

At any rate, even if lefty Doug Jones manages to win on December 12 and put one more Democrat in the Senate, the GOP may gain back its lost seat in New Jersey. Garden State Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is standing trial on bribery and corruption charges. If he's convicted, Republican Governor Chris Christie will be able to name his successor.

The nonstop circus, like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going, and going, and going... Better check my popcorn supply!

Comments

Actually Nurg, it's absurdly high.

It it likely that over the course of 44 years a cumulative total of 50 million cases of abuse have been reported, but this is because people trapped in the underclass are often repeatedly caught in abusive situations.

However, 50 million people would be roughly 1/3 of all American women suffering criminal-level abuse. Not even the crazy redefinition of sexual assault on campuses goes that high.

So you're mixing apples and oranges in terms of your counting when you deal with incidents of abuse.

Abortions are by definition a singular event for the person killed by it. You can't be aborted over and over again.

So the "solution" to abuse actually killed 50 million people. Basically you are arguing that an episode of abuse is a fate worse than death.

I think most reasonable people would disagree.

Finally, I will again point out that abortion apologists used to argue that thanks to their grisly procedure, only "wanted" children will be born. That's pretty obviously bullshit. The ability to kill the unborn on a whim hasn't done a damn thing to stop child abuse, it simply leave less children (particularly black ones) alive to abuse.

A couple of clarifications, Nurg... It was actually the Washington Post, not the NY Times, that published the story of the alleged victims' accounts of Moore's transgressions. And I did write, "In this case, the accusers are not anonymous..."
As far as the possible repercussions, I was referring to the four or five accusers who tend to be liberal and supporters of Democrats. But getting threats and blow-back from Moore supporters could happen to any of the accusers, including Beverly Nelson, a Trump supporter who held a press conference with feminist lawyer Gloria Allred.
Finally, on the abortion issue, you are not wrong with your concerns about child abuse and sexual predators impregnating girls for their own pleasure, the consequences be damned. But let's put it this way: If there were some way to completely end abortion now, and there would never be another abortion as long as humans occupy the earth, there would STILL be child abuse, and men preying upon girls would NOT CEASE.
Both transgressions are simply evidence of humans' flawed ("fallen," in theological terms) nature.
Just because several evil actions would still occur by eliminating another evil action doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to halt that one atrocity. I happen to believe that abortion -- especially partial birth abortion -- is heinous. The tally, if you were to count how many human lives were eradicated in the womb, vs. how many human lives were vitiated by child abuse or criminal sexual conduct, is pretty one-sided. I don't think that, since Roe V. Wade in 1973, 50 million children have been abused, or 50 million girls have been victims of statutory rape.

A pretty fair summation. I'm a little curious how you square the Times using anonymous sources with the notion that Moore's accuser is probably facing quite a bit of harassment over her accusation of Moore. Quite aside from accusations of libel/slander, accusers in sexual assault/rape cases typically face an avalanche of abuse for some weird reason, and likewise anonymity protects the public's right to know from the stifling of those in power who benefit from nasty little secrets being kept that way.

And yes, I'm entirely in favour of Bill Clinton being hung out to dry, along with the rest of the bastards. It's this "Our guy, right or wrong" that's killing the West. I suspect it's from skewed notions of what constitutes the lesser evil.

Take Doug Jones. Apparently you pro-life types consider him to be in favour of infanticide. Which might explain why some people have been quoted as preferring Roy Moore, because at least child abuse is supposedly better than infanticide. Which is interesting because abortion services exist, in part, to 'solve' pregnancies that are the result of child abuse.